"later admitted regretting that decision her whole life. Maple Leaf Rag The ""Maple Leaf Rag"" (copyright registered on September 18, 1899) is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. It is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces. As a result Joplin was called the ""King of Ragtime"". The piece gave Joplin a steady if unspectacular income for the rest of his life. Despite ragtime's decline after Joplin's death in 1917, the ""Maple Leaf Rag"" continued to"
"""The Entertainer"" (1902), although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s. For at least 12 years after its publication, ""Maple Leaf Rag"" heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines, harmonic progressions or metric patterns. Ragtime fell out of favor as jazz claimed the public's imagination after 1917, but there have been numerous revivals since the music has been re-discovered. First in the early 1940s, many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire and put out ragtime recordings on 78 rpm"
"came the release and Grammy Award for The New England Ragtime Ensemble's recording of Joplin's ""Red Back Book."" Finally, with the release of the motion picture ""The Sting"" in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience. Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag ""The Entertainer"" won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching No. 3 on May 18. Ragtime composers of the mid- to late-20th century include Max Morath, William Bolcom, Trebor Tichenor, David Thomas Roberts, and Reginald Robinson. Many modern"
"Dick Zimmerman Richard “Dick” Zimmerman (born August 11, 1937) is a ragtime performer, historian, author and producer. He is regarded as being one of the key figures responsible for the worldwide revival of ragtime. Zimmerman is the only pianist to have recorded the complete works (66 rags on solo piano) of Scott Joplin and in 1987 was awarded the first place prize “Champion Ragtime Performer of the World”. Zimmerman was technical advisor for the films ""Scott Joplin"" and ""Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime Composers"". He is a founder of the ""Maple Leaf Club"", and is the editor of its publication,"
"the year and was named Top Classical Album of 1974 by ""Billboard"" magazine. The movie ""The Sting"" (1973) brought ragtime to a wide audience with its soundtrack of Joplin tunes. The film's rendering of ""The Entertainer"", adapted and orchestrated by Marvin Hamlisch, was a Top 5 hit in 1975. Ragtime – with Joplin's work at the forefront – has been cited as an American equivalent of the minuets of Mozart, the mazurkas of Chopin, or the waltzes of Brahms. Ragtime also influenced classical composers including Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky. Ragtime originated in African American music in the"
"Ragtime Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or ""ragged"" rhythm. The style has its origins in African-American communities in cities such as St. Louis. Ernest Hogan (1865–1909) was a pioneer of ragtime and was the first composer to have his ragtime pieces (or ""rags"") published as sheet music, beginning with the song ""La Pas Ma La"" published in 1895. Hogan has been credited with coining the term ""ragtime"". The term is derived from his hometown ""Shake Rag"" in"
"rag, and has been seen as demonstrating Joplin's excellence as a classical composer. The work has been described as ""an enchantingly beautiful piece that is among the greatest of Ragtime Waltzes"", a ""masterpiece"", and ""Joplin's finest waltz"". Joplin's principal claim to fame was the publication in 1899 of the Maple Leaf Rag, which became a best-selling instrumental hit, and provided the composer with a steady income for the rest of his life from the royalties. Despite this success early on in his career (he was named as the ""King of Ragtime"" by numerous contemporaries), he had continued financial problems and"
"Syncopations"", a ballet based on tunes by Joplin and other composers of the era. That year also brought the premiere by the Los Angeles Ballet of ""Red Back Book"", choreographed by John Clifford to Joplin rags from the collection of the same name, including both solo piano performances and arrangements for full orchestra. Scott Joplin Scott Joplin ( or November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the ""King of Ragtime"". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and"
"Ragtime (musical) Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty. The music includes marches, cakewalks, gospel and ragtime. Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, ""Ragtime"" tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th century: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. Historical figures including Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit,"
"act included him ragging tunes at the piano, vocal ragging scat singing), and dancing. Theatrical photographs from his Australasia tour (1911) show him dancing in blackface. Harney quit touring after suffering from a heart attack in 1928. Ben Harney died of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1938. In an appreciation that appeared in Time Magazine on March 14, 1938, a week after his death, he was described as ""Ragtime's Father"". Time wrote that ""the first man to write ragtime down on paper was a slick-haired Kentuckian, Ben Harney."" Ben Harney's compositions included: 1890s"
"Euday L. Bowman Euday Louis Bowman (November 9, 1887 – May 26, 1949) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime and blues who represented the style of ""Texas Ragtime"". He is chiefly remembered as the composer of the successful ""Twelfth Street Rag"", a rag from 1914 out of a series of ragtimes that Bowman wrote during or after a period in which he worked as a pianist in some of the better bordellos of Kansas City. These tunes -- ""Sixth Street Rag"", ""Tenth Street Rag"", ""Eleventh Street Rag"" and ""Twelfth Street Rag""—were named after streets of ""Boss"" Tom Pendergast's"
"annual ""It's Magic"" show. Dick and his wife Diane Zimmerman performed together as a husband-and-wife team in several magic acts, including one televised segment on the Merv Griffin Show. Dick Zimmerman Richard “Dick” Zimmerman (born August 11, 1937) is a ragtime performer, historian, author and producer. He is regarded as being one of the key figures responsible for the worldwide revival of ragtime. Zimmerman is the only pianist to have recorded the complete works (66 rags on solo piano) of Scott Joplin and in 1987 was awarded the first place prize “Champion Ragtime Performer of the World”. Zimmerman was technical"
"them entertainment. This reached out to the community that TOBA was missing. The content of the touring shows was melodramatic and farcical; these shows were designed to be enjoyed in that moment, not to be remembered as individual classics. The black musicians and composers of the vaudeville era influenced what is now known as American musical comedy, jazz and Broadway musical theater. The popular music of the time is ragtime, consisting of the piano and banjo. Ragtime was developed from black folk music The tempo of Ragtime matched the pace of the Vaudevillian revue type show. Thomas Greene Bethune or"
"music, including ragtime. One of their best known works was the million-selling ragtime piece, ""Spaghetti Rag"" which was notably popular during the ragtime revival in the 1950s. Their compositions were recorded by performers for Victor Records and Columbia Records. George Lyons was the stage name for Dominick George Martoccio (b. 26 June 1889, New York City – d. 31 January 1958, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). In his life he was a Vaudeville performer, a composer, and a movie actor. He was described by the ""Los Angeles Herald"" as ""a premier harpist, playing most every kind of music, including ragtime, on his"
"on live television. He died at age 78 in 1956. Julius Lenzberg Julius Lenzberg (January 3, 1878 to April 24, 1956) was a German-American composer of ragtime and jazz. He recorded a substantial number of jazz pieces with orchestra between 1919 and 1922, in addition to ragtime music such as his popular ""Hungarian Rag"" of 1913. Lenzberg was the youngest child of German (Prussian) immigrants Henry and Julia Lenzberg, and he had many brothers and sisters. His father worked as a cigar packer in Baltimore. Jules, as he often called himself, worked at the Weber and Fields Vaudeville Club in"
"He soon became known as one of the best ragtime performers in the country, billing himself as the ""Rag Time King of the World."" A white musician with little exposure to the African-American roots of ragtime, he pioneered a style of music that appealed to the public but is often derided by purists as ""pseudo-ragtime."" He was one of the first to record ragtime piano styles, working for Columbia Records starting in 1912. While he played in vaudeville pretty much continuously from the late 1890s through the late 1910s, his style mostly fell out of favor by the onset of"
"Joseph Lamb Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960) was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the ""Big Three"" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he"
"1982. Thomas Shea (composer) Thomas William Shea (November 14, 1931 – March 12, 1982) was an American ragtime composer. Born in Mattoon, Illinois, United States, Shea studied piano briefly as a child, but later became interested in ragtime after hearing the ""Maple Leaf Rag."" After learning some ragtime by ear, he started composing his own rags. His style has been informally called ""Prairie Ragtime."" He was active in ragtime circles in the Detroit area and expanded his exposure to ragtime and its proponents by attending ragtime festivals in St. Louis. In 1970 he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. He is"
"popularity of the ""Maple Leaf Rag"", because while the compositions were of increasing lyrical beauty and delicate syncopation they remained obscure and unheralded during his lifetime. Joplin apparently realized that his music was ahead of its time: As music historian Ian Whitcomb mentions that Joplin, ""...opined that ""Maple Leaf Rag"" would make him 'King of Ragtime Composers' but he also knew that he would not be a pop hero in his own lifetime. 'When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to recognize me,' he told a friend."" Just over thirty years later he was recognized, and later historian Rudi"
"Tom Turpin Thomas Million John Turpin (November 18, 1871 – August 13, 1922) was an African-American composer of ragtime music. Tom Turpin was born in Savannah, Georgia, a son of John L. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin. In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St. Louis, Missouri which became a meeting-place for local pianists and an incubation point for early folk ragtime, such as musician Joe Jordan. Turpin himself is credited with the first published rag by an African-American, his ""Harlem Rag"" of 1897 (it was composed by 1892, a year before ragtime's introduction to the world at"
"or published during his lifetime. However, they became known from recordings he made in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1993, Richard Egan, Jr. published ""Brun Campbell: The Music of ""The Ragtime Kid"""", a collection of transcriptions of Campbell pieces. In 2000, David Thomas Roberts recorded an album of Campbell's music, which was released on CD by Pianomania Music Publishing of Roseville, California. Brun Campbell is the subject of three novels by Larry Karp: ""The Ragtime Kid"", ""The King of Ragtime"", and ""The Ragtime Fool"". Brun Campbell Brun Campbell (March 26, 1884 – November 23, 1952) was an American composer"
"Max Morath Max Morath (born October 1, 1926) is an American ragtime pianist, composer, actor and author. He is best known for his piano playing and is referred to as ""Mr. Ragtime"". He has been a touring performer as well as being variously a composer, recording artist, actor, playwright, and radio and television presenter. Rudi Blesh billed Morath as a ""one-man ragtime army"". Morath was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied piano and harmony as a child and was exposed to the rudiments of ragtime piano by his mother, a schooled pianist who had spent several years playing for"
"George Botsford George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 11, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music. Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was ""The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk,"" published in 1899. His most important rag is ""Black and White Rag,"" published in 1908. Other Botsford compositions include ""Grizzly Bear Rag,"" ""Chatterbox Rag,"" ""Pianophiends Rag,"" ""Texas Steer,"" ""Boomerang Rag,"" and ""Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay."" Botsford moved to New York City and became a Tin Pan Alley composer. Around 1914-1915 he experimented with"
"Krell also composed the rag Shake Yo' Dusters! or Piccaninny Rag in 1898. The popularity of ""Mississippi Rag"" resulted in the emergence of the genre known as ragtime. William Henry Krell was a Chicago bandleader and composer whose other compositions included: Mississippi Rag has been recorded by Claude Bolling in 1966, the Firehouse Five Plus Two, Steve Pistorius, Turk Murphy, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra on ""More Candy"", Richard Zimmerman, Squeek Steele on ""Ragtime Volume One"", Harmonic Brass Munich on ""There's a Man"", Knuckles O'Toole on ""Knuckles O'Toole: Plays The Greatest All-Time Ragtime Hits"", Terry Waldo on ""Ragtime Classics Vol. 1"", Evergreen"
"Thomas Shea (composer) Thomas William Shea (November 14, 1931 – March 12, 1982) was an American ragtime composer. Born in Mattoon, Illinois, United States, Shea studied piano briefly as a child, but later became interested in ragtime after hearing the ""Maple Leaf Rag."" After learning some ragtime by ear, he started composing his own rags. His style has been informally called ""Prairie Ragtime."" He was active in ragtime circles in the Detroit area and expanded his exposure to ragtime and its proponents by attending ragtime festivals in St. Louis. In 1970 he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. He is known"
"vaudeville troupes became much more common after the introduction of regular steamship services between America and Australia in the 1870s. Some genuine African-American minstrel troupes and Jubilee Singers (black chamber choirs) toured from the 1870s. Ragtime reached Australia in the 1890s in the form of syncopated cakewalk march music and syncopated ""coon-song"" and many white and black ragtime artists of repute toured Australia, including the black ragtime vocalist, Ernest Hogan, and white artists Ben Harney (the self-proclaimed 'originator' of ragtime) and Gene Greene (the Emperor of Ragtime). Greene in particular taught many Australian artists how to 'rag' (improvise in ragtime"
"""miniature opera"" intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained acceptance. After a long career involving many kinds of music, he died in New York City. George Botsford George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 11, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music. Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was ""The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk,"" published in 1899. His most important rag is ""Black and White Rag,"" published in 1908. Other Botsford compositions include ""Grizzly Bear Rag,"""
"he played in carabets and worked in the Théâtre National and the Théâtre Français. At the beginning of the 20th century, he began to venture into modern musical genres, taking a particular interest in the rise of ragtime in the United States. Collaborating with Léo-Ernest Ouimet, he began his career at Ouimetoscope, where he worked until becoming an accompanist at the Théâtre des Nouveautés. He composed many works; for the most part, he published in ""Le Passe-Temps"". He most well-known piece is ""Raggity-Rag"", which was reissued in 1967. Nicknamed ""The Canadian Strauss"", despite his talents, Lafrenière lived a life of"
"rags, brought out compositions that had never been published, and made recordings. A year before his death in 1960 the album ""Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime"" was released by Folkways Records. He died of a heart attack in Brooklyn at age 72. Works cited Joseph Lamb Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960) was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the ""Big Three"" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular"
"have set the standard for all folk ragtime pianists today. Some of his noted works are: ""Hickory Smoked Rag"" (1974), ""Days Beyond Recall"" (circa. 1960), and ""Pierce City Rag"" (circa. 1961) among many others. Folk ragtime Folk ragtime is a subgenre of ragtime, a distinctly American music. It is thought to have originated with illiterate itinerant African American piano players, who learned the syncopated music not formally, but through their peers. Folk Ragtime as a form stayed active until the early 1920s, when young America shifted its attention to early jazz. It was later revived, starting in 1947 with the"
"steady, and would have given Joplin an income that would have covered his expenses. In 1909, estimated sales would have given him an income of $600 annually (approximately $ in current prices). The ""Maple Leaf Rag"" did serve as a model for the hundreds of rags to come from future composers, especially in the development of classic ragtime. After the publication of the ""Maple Leaf Rag"", Joplin was soon being described as ""King of rag time writers"", not least by himself on the covers of his own work, such as ""The Easy Winners"" and ""Elite Syncopations"". After the Joplins moved"
"Twelfth Street Rag ""Twelfth Street Rag"" is a ragtime musical composition published by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. Years earlier, a friend of Bowman known only as ""Raggedy Ed"" declared his intention to open a pawn shop on 12th Street while the two were walking along it. Bowman is rumored to have said ""If you get rich on those three balls, I'll write a piece on three notes to make myself rich."" The result was ""The 12th Street Rag,"" one of the most famous and best-selling rags of the ragtime era. It was more than 15 years after Bowman composed"
"Ben Harney Benjamin Robertson ""Ben"" Harney (March 6, 1872 – March 2, 1938) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition ""You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down"" is regarded as one of the early ragtime composition. In 1924, the New York Times wrote that Ben Harney ""probably did more to popularize ragtime than any other person."" Time Magazine termed him ""Ragtime's Father"" in 1938. Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville, Kentucky. Although some sources put his birthplace as Nashville, Tennessee, according to his father's military"